Mog and Chips

When someone’s upset, but can’t tell you what’s wrong (for personal or legal reasons)

I mean, how can you say “everything’s gonna be okay” when you don’t even know what’s wrong and it’s not like you, personally, can do anything about it - you can’t keep your promise that everything will be fine. Because you’re an acquaintance, rather than a close friend, you’re out of the loop and it seems like you’re snooping for gossip if you hang around. Because you’re in a lesser position than them in the workplace or educational institution or such, if you buy them something it could be interpreted as pitying them.

You’re not on hugging terms - you’re aquaintances, not buddies, and you never will be because you’re not one of those people that can convince someone who has insecurities that they look fine and they’re intelligent even though that’s what you really think. You can’t say “Yeah, but everyone here loves you” in case it’s something to do with her not being harsh enough on everyone or anything like that. You’re treading on eggshells with a blindfold because you don’t know what the reason is and you might well make things worse.

In other news, I’ve got a lesson tomorrow which I didn’t realise, at a really awkward time, at a time I’m meant to be working because we’re short two people. I couldn’t arrange anything today because of situation above, “by the way, can you ring around to see if…” etc etc wasn’t really appropriate. But it’s CGI - only a screening, but probably discussions about the extra classes which is really important. And it’s at 1:30, when I’m meant to be working at 2, thinking that if I had a lesson, it would be in the morning, not the afternoon. Probably so that people don’t sleep through the lesson, which is unfortunately awkward. We’ve also got an outside manager covering for the one that left, who I’ve never met before.

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